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- From: jimiii@nimbus.com (Jim Warford)
- Subject: Re: per mile stats (was Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.234010.2718@nimbus.com>
- Reply-To: jimiii@nimbus.com (Jim Warford)
- Organization: Nimbus Technology, Santa Clara, CA USA
- References: <1992Nov17.033630.5630@tcsi.com] <2928@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> <1992Nov18.221634.2505@nimbus.com> <28396@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:40:10 GMT
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- In article <28396@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.221634.2505@nimbus.com> jimiii@nimbus.com (Jim Warford) writes:
- >
- >>Don't know about cars or mc's breakdown but in the USA it is 1.3 fatalities
- >>per 60 million miles driven. In Latvia it is 25 per 60 million miles. Latvia
- >>is the most dangerous place to drive and the US is tied with the Netherlands
- >>as the safest.
- >
- >In the UK the fatality rate for cars is 4.5 per billion km, which
- >works out at .43 deaths per 60 million miles travelled. Given the
- >extra safety of public service vehicles and trucks over cars, and the
- >relatively low proportion of more dangerous things than cars, such as
- >motorcycles, this suggests that the UK is safer than the US.
- >
- I got my figures straight out of Wednesdays newspaper. It rated the 5 most
- dangerous countries and 5 least dangerous countries from a sample of 128
- countries. There are no statistics for UK but I would suspect them to
- be one of the contributors.
-
- Most dangerous (deaths per 60K miles)
- Latvia 25, Turkey 24, Morocco 21, Honduras 15.9, South Africa 11.6
- Least dangerous
- Netherlands 1.3, US 1.3, Denmark 1.6, Finland 1.6, Germany 1.7
-
- Other interesting stats:
- Hong Kong is the most crowded
- Kuwait has the most cars per family (2.1)
- Mexico and Spain added the most new road milage
- Traffic in Europe is supposed to rise 40% in the next decade.
-
- They quote their source as a report by the "International Road Federation"
- Where did you get your statistic from?
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